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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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yspring and pasture. He was of the Saadi, one of the mostillustrious families of the Shammar*, and he possessed greatpersonal influence in the tribe. His intelligence was of avery high order, and he was as well knowTi for his skill inBedouin intrigue, as for his courage and daring in war. Inperson he was of middle height, of spare habit, but well made,and of noble and dignified carriage; although a musket woundin the thigh, from which the ball had not been extracted, gave * An Arab tribe is divided into septs, and each se)it is composed ofcertain families. Thus Suttum was a Shammar, of tlic branch calledthe Boraij, and of the family of Saadi, besides being a member of a pe-culiar division of the great tribe called the Khorusseh. IV.) SHEIKH SUTTUM. 85 him a slight lameness in his gait. His features were regularand well-proportioned, and of that delicate character so fre-quently found amongst the nomades of the desert. A restlessand sparkling eye of the deepest black seemed to scan and
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Sheikh Suttum. penetrate everything within its ken. His dark hair was plattedinto many long tails ; his beard, like that of the Arabs in ge-neral, was scanty. He wore the usual Arab shirt, and overit a cloak of blue cloth trimmed with red silk and lined withfur, a present from some pasha as he pretended, but more 86 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. (jrobably a part of some great mans wardrobe that had beenappropriated without its owners consent. A coloured ker-chief, or keffieh, was thrown loosely over his head, and con-fmed above the temples by a rope of twisted camels hair.At his side hung a scimitar, an antique horse-pistol was heldby a rope, tied as a girdle round his waist, and a long spear,tufted with black ostrich feathers, and ornamented with scarletstreamers, rested on his shoulder. He was the very pictureof a true Bedouin Sheikh, and his liveliness, his wit, and hissingular powers of conversation, which made him the mostagreeable of companions, did not belie his race. As we wound

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